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414On the normative dimension of the St. Petersburg paradoxStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (2): 210-223. 2006.In this paper I offer an account of the normative dimension implicit in D. Bernoulli’s expected utility functions by means of an analysis of the juridical metaphors upon which the concept of mathematical expectation was moulded. Following a suggestion by the late E. Coumet, I show how this concept incorporated a certain standard of justice which was put in question by the St. Petersburg paradox. I contend that Bernoulli would have solved it by introducing an alternative normative criterion rathe…Read more
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48Inventing temperature: Measurement and scientific progress (review)Theoria 21 (3): 344-345. 2006.
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87Mechanisms, continental approaches, trials, and evolutionary medicine: New work in the philosophy of medicineTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 32 (1): 1-4. 2011.
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23"The Logic of Social Research," by A. L. Stinchcombe (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (2): 296-298. 2008.
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6Mathématiques et action politique. Études d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques sociales (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 17 (2): 391-392. 2002.A la vista del catálogo de nuestro Instituto Nacional de Estadística, quién dejará de sorprenderse al descubrir entre las colecciones auspiciadas por el INED francés una dedicada a los Clásicos de la economía y la población, con cuidadísimas ediciones de Condorcet, Süssmilch, Quesnay, Graunt... A esta colección se suma ahora, bajo la dirección de Eric Brian, otra serie de Estudios e investigaciones históricas, cuyo primer volumen comentamos aquí. Matemáticas y acción política, compilado por Thie…Read more
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199Continental Philosophies of the social sciencesIn Ian Jarvie Jesus Zamora Bonilla (ed.), The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences., Sage Publications. pp. 81-102. 2011.
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16Book Review: Stinchcombe, A. L. (2005). The Logic of Social Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (2): 296-298. 2008.
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11Philosophy of economics [Handbook of the philosophy of science, vol. 13] (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 21 (1): 96-98. 2014.No abstract
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Medicine |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Economics |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Probability |